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Imagine yourself in the dock, on whatever charge it may be, and imagine this and that friend coming forward to speak to you. What can they say? What do they know? They know that you are a bore or not a bore, a grouser or not a grouser, generous or mean, sentimental or cynical, an optimist or a pessimist, and that you have or have not a sense of humour. None of these is a criminal offence.
He is so pre-occupied that he does not even answer when the sarcastic Sergeant says as he passes him: "Ah! here's our grouser." At last he is laid on the table which the wounded men call the "billiard-table." Then, things become very trying. I feel at once that whatever I do, Gregoire will suffer. I uncover the wound in his thigh, and he screams. I wash the wound carefully, and he screams.
"Oh," Grouser turned abruptly, "plenty of hay.... You found yer bloomin' natural fodder, eh! Aye, ye're every bit such a donkey as ye look." "Look 'ere, wot d'you take me for?" "Take you for? Wouldn't take you fer a bloomin' gift. We used to have one like you with our organ 'ad it on a chain."
It required a bit of an optimist to see a home in that apparently comfortless situation, but men just relieved from the firing line are not over-critical, and the prospect of a night under the stars, but away from the crash of shell and the "phit" of striking bullets, was pleasant enough to satisfy the most chronic grouser.
'I like to fight where I can see what's coming. 'Maybe you'll see more'n you want before you're finished with this trip, ye long grouser, put in Williams. 'This ain't no pleasure picnic, let me tell you. Our old man's hot stuff, he is, and if I knows anything about it, it won't be long before he starts handing out surprise packets to them Turks. 'Hallo, he broke off, 'we're for the surface.
But things are all so different when you're married. You girls had better come to tea." Julia linked her arm strongly in Marie's as they followed the elderly woman out. "Marie, love," she whispered, "I'm a grouser. You know I wish you all the luck in the world and more. You know I do?" "I have it," said Marie, smiling. "And I hope you'll have it, too, before long."
The old man's on the warpath." And in an undertone: "Same old grouser! Never COULD take a joke." "He's tired. I'll make it all right," gave Polly back. "It was only his fun, Richard," she pleaded, as she held out a linen jacket for her husband to slip his arms into. "Fun of a kind I won't permit in my house. What an example to set the child!
If you told 'em as 'ow the war was goin' to end to-morrow they'd either call you a bloomin' liar, or grouse like 'ell becos they 'adn't 'ad the time to win the V.C. "There was young Alf Cobb. 'E wasn't arf a grouser, an' 'e 'ad good luck all the bloomin' time.
Fritz adopted a nasty habit in the form of lobbing over from fifteen miles away a new type of heavy shell, apparently under experimental observation. One fell among the Guernsey cookers, tearing a chunk cut of Sergt. Grouser he had not been with the Battalion long found vent for his feelings. "Ain't got any blarsted sense, them Germans aint.
The sight of her recalled his thoughts instantly to the war, and to a letter he had received that morning from a brother officer just arrived in London on medical leave the letter of a 'grouser' if ever there was one. 'They say that this week is to see another big push the French probably in Champagne, and we south of Bethune.
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